A4 CD/DVD Foldable Sleeve Template

Free Printable Template for A4 CD/DVD Sleeve

Step 1: Download

Step 2: Customize
Step 3: Print

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Downloaded Youtube content on Plex

My internet provider gives me uncapped data at night, but severely capped and throttled during the day. For this reason, I like to download some videos from YouTube and then make them accessible on my Plex server. This is especially handy for my wife, who loves a certain popular exercise channel.

Whatever your reason for putting YouTube videos on your Plex server, this is a handy guide to getting those videos on the server easily accessible.

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PCMR Giveaway - Mad Max

To celebrate reaching 1 000 000 pageviews on this blog, I will be giving away one copy of the Mad Max Video Game the moment I reach 1 000 000 views. Currently I am just over 900 000 and increasing quickly!

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Component guide for first time PC builders

This is designed to be a companion the the budget PC Build here and an update to the previous component guide.

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PC Components

After my Budget PC Guide, I got a number of emails regarding components and their functions, so here is a quick overview of the main components of a gaming pc. Made for r/pcmasterrace/

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Activate Intel IGP alongside Discrete Graphics

I recently built myself an r/averagebattlestation to work on. It was built using a second hand i5 3330 on a Gigabyte H61 Motherboard, but this guide should apply to most modern Intel systems.

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Bypass Origin Region Blocked "On the House"

When I checked my usual news and gaming update sites, I found out that EA was giving away Syberia II for free. So I opened up Origin, and found that the On The House game remained "Theme Hospital" which I have already claimed, and am in the process of trying to finish.

I thought I had missed the free window, but then I discovered that Syberia II was not even on the Origin store in my home country. So I decided to see if I could claim it by using a proxy. Lo and behold, it worked! Read on for instructions on how to claim it.

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Building a budget gaming PC using second hand parts

Having a top end gaming PC is every PC gamer's dream, unfortunately, not everyone can shell out over 1000USD just for a CPU alone. Luckily, for less than 500USD you can build yourself a PC from high end, used components, capable of playing most of today's AAA titles at medium settings, with a clear upgrade path to reach the top of the pile.

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